Sex Differences in Psychiatric Disease: A Focus on the Glutamate System
Alterations in glutamate, the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, are implicated in several psychiatric diseases. Many of these psychiatric diseases display epidemiological sex differences, with either males or females exhibiting different symptoms or disease prevalence. However, littl...
Main Authors: | Megan M. Wickens, Debra A. Bangasser, Lisa A. Briand |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-06-01
|
Series: | Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnmol.2018.00197/full |
Similar Items
-
To freeze or not to freeze
by: Debra Bangasser
Published: (2015-12-01) -
Early resource scarcity causes cortical astrocyte enlargement and sex-specific changes in the orbitofrontal cortex transcriptome in adult rats
by: Claire Deckers, et al.
Published: (2024-03-01) -
Sex differences in the medial prefrontal cortical glutamate system
by: Melissa C. Knouse, et al.
Published: (2022-11-01) -
Sex differences in pre- and post-synaptic glutamate signaling in the nucleus accumbens core
by: Melissa C. Knouse, et al.
Published: (2023-08-01) -
Neurodevelopmental problems and extremes in BMI
by: Nóra Kerekes, et al.
Published: (2015-07-01)